Feinstein Planning to Offer Semi-auto Ban

[MitchHankSauer]

Feinstein Planning to Offer Semi-auto Ban as an Amendment Soon

Please urge your Senators to oppose this effort

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
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Phone: [phone] / FAX: [phone]
www.gunowners.org

Wednesday, June 2, 2004


Well, we knew this day would eventually come.
GOA has been warning gun owners that Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein of California would be looking for an avenue to attach her gun ban to unrelated legislation sometime this year.
According to Senate sources, Feinstein will be making her move quite soon.
While she reportedly has her eyes on a number of different bills as possible vehicles for her amendment, it seems certain that she will try to piggy-back her anti-gun language onto a legal reform bill (such as S. 2062) within the next few weeks.
You will remember that when Feinstein offered her gun ban amendment in March, it passed 52-47.
While a switch of only three Senators would be enough to kill the amendment, it seems that the easiest way to defeat Feinstein will be through a filibuster. Our side only needs 41 Senators to kill her amendment through the art of filibuster, and it would appear that we definitely have that many votes... BUT ONLY IF THE 47 SENATORS WHO VOTED RIGHT LAST TIME CONTINUE TO HOLD THE LINE!

That s why we need another barrage of phone calls and e-mails going into Senate offices.

ACTION: Please contact your Senators and urge them to oppose any Feinstein amendment to reinstate the semi-auto ban. Tell them to also support any effort to filibuster this unconstitutional legislation.

You can send the letter as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center at
www.gunowners.org/activism.htm (where phone and fax numbers are also available).


----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
I have been alerted to the fact that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is planning to offer the renewal of Clinton s semi-auto ban as an amendment to legislation in upcoming weeks.
I would join the voices of many other Americans who would urge you to support our call for a filibuster against the reauthorization.
Please know that the Clinton semi-auto ban is one of the most hated pieces of legislation ever enacted, and those who support its reauthorization will find no friends or votes within the pro-gun community.
Sincerely,

[9mm]

Sorry if this is against forum rules, but...

That fat, hypocrytical lying bitch deserves everything bad coming to her.

The welfare and transfer payment recipients of her State are very greatful for the robbery of national funds she oversees every day. I guess the soccer moms love her too because they never bother to read or research anything beyond women's magazines.

That and she provides citizens' rights to illegals.

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9mm said:

Sorry if this is against forum rules, but...

That fat, hypocrytical lying pregnant dog

I take serious offense to this...

You left off Ignorant ;D

[5ontarget]

here's another set of samples, and some other info on the politics and their attempts at defining assault weapons.
Also has a cool countdown clock.
www.awbansunset.com/writeofficials.html

[5ontarget]

The time has come

Got this from an xd forum


Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has once again introduced legislation to renew the so-called "assault weapons" ban. S.2498 was introduced last week, and, by using a "nuclear option" referred to as Rule XIV, has gotten the bill placed on the Senate calendar.

As a Senate educational article on the subject puts it,

"Most bills are routinely referred to the committee with appropriate jurisdiction as soon as they are introduced. But if a Senator plans to introduce a bill and believes that the committee to which it would be referred will be unsympathetic, Rule XIV permits the Senator to bypass the standing committee system altogether and have the bill placed directly on the Calendar of Business, with exactly the same formal status the bill would have if it had been the subject of extensive hearings and exhaustive mark-up meetings in committee."

The article goes on to say that this option is considered a last resort by Senators, because it "undermines the committee system as a whole and because they do not wish to encourage a practice that can be used against their own committees."

So, Sen. Feinstein and her 11 co-sponsors (the usual suspects) have thrown down the gauntlet, and a true showdown is shaping up. Once again, we must contact our Senators, ESPECIALLY those who voted against the AWB renewal amendment several months ago, to stand firm in their opposition to this ill-conceived and proven ineffective idea. Because the AWB renewal has enough votes in the Senate to pass, a filibuster is likely the only way it can be stopped there

The Senators who voted against the recent amendment renewing the ban need our support and encouragement to stand their ground, as it the rhetoric put forth by the anti-gun side will undoubtedly be intense and viscous.

[9mm]

Undoubtedly this will pass due to some turncoats in the Senate, and I'm not proud that most of the shallow Republicans supporting Fineswine came from my stomping grounds in IL, WI and MI.